Editing 1904 in music (section)

==Births==
* [[January 10]] – [[Ray Bolger]], singer and dancer (d. 1987)
* [[January 13]] – [[Richard Addinsell]], composer (d. 1977)
* [[January 15]]
** [[Eddie DeLange]], bandleader and lyricist (d. 1949)
** [[Leonid Jacobson]], Russian dancer, choreographer and ballet master (d. 1975)
* [[January 18]] – [[Anthony Galla-Rini]], accordionist, composer and conductor (d. 2006)
* [[January 22]] – [[George Balanchine]], Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
* [[February 3]] – [[Luigi Dallapiccola]], composer (d. 1975)
* [[February 23]] – [[Allan Gray (composer)|Allan Gray]], film composer (d. 1973)
* [[February 29]] – [[Jimmy Dorsey]], bandleader (d. 1957)
* [[March 1]] – [[Glenn Miller]], trombonist and bandleader (m. 1944)
* [[March 4]] – [[Joseph Schmidt]], Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
* [[March 8]] – [[Nikos Skalkottas]] Greek composer (d.1949)
* [[April 9]] – [[Sharkey Bonano]], jazz musician (d. 1972)
* [[April 16]] – [[Fifi D'Orsay]], actress and singer (d. 1983)
* [[April 18]] – [[Pigmeat Markham]], all-round entertainer (d. 1981)
* [[April 29]]
** [[Russ Morgan]], orchestra leader (d. 1969)
** [[Pedro Vargas]], Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)
* [[May 21]] – [[Fats Waller]], American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
* [[May 23]] – [[Libby Holman]], US singer and actress (d. 1971)
* [[May 25]] – [[Kurt Thomas (composer)|Kurt Thomas]], German choral conductor (d.1973)
* [[May 26]] – [[George Formby, Jr.|George Formby]], English [[music hall]] performer, singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1961)
* [[May 28]] – [[Margaret Harris]], opera costume and set designer (d. 2000)
* [[May 29]] – [[León Zuckert]], conductor, composer and arranger (d. 1992)
* [[June 3]] – [[Jan Peerce]], American tenor (d. 1984)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/jan-peerce-101773 |title=Jan Peerce – Broadway Cast & Staff |website=[[Internet Broadway Database]] |publisher=[[The Broadway League]] |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] – [[Raymond Burke (clarinetist)|Raymond Burke]], clarinettist (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139487809 |title=Notice de personne "Burke, Ray (1904-1986)" |trans-title=Person notice "Burke, Ray (1904-1986)" |publisher=[[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] |language=fr |date=24 May 2018 |access-date=8 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] – [[Don Murray (clarinetist)|Don Murray]], clarinettist (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://syncopatedtimes.com/don-murray/ |last=Senior |first=Andy |title=Don Murray |website=The Syncopated Times |date=28 May 2021 |access-date=8 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 11]] – [[Pinetop Smith]], jazz pianist (d. 1929)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb138998784 |title=Notice de personne "Smith, Pine Top (1904-1929)" |trans-title=Person notice "Smith, Pine Top (1904-1929)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=31 March 2017 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 15]] – [[Anna Mahler]], musician and sculptor (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12805156x |title=Notice de personne "Mahler, Anna (1904-1988)" |trans-title=Person notice "Mahler, Anna (1904-1988)" |publisher=Bibliothèque nationale de France |language=fr |date=16 May 2014 |access-date=8 August 2022}}</ref>
* [[June 21]] – [[Mack Gordon]], Polish-born US lyricist (d. 1959)
* [[June 24]] – [[Phil Harris]], jazz musician (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite news
|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-13-mn-34742-story.html
|title=Benny Show's Phil Harris Dies at 89
|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]
|date=August 13, 1995
|access-date=July 27, 2022
|quote=Phil Harris, the bandleader who became famous by portraying himself as a flashy, hard-drinking musician on the old Jack Benny radio show, died. … He was 89.}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – [[Robert Whitney (conductor)|Robert Whitney]], British conductor (d. 1986)
* [[July 14]] – [[Nadia Reisenberg]], Litvian pianist (d. 1983)
* [[July 15]]
** [[Dorothy Fields]], librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
** [[Vladimir Bourmeister]], Russian dancer and choreographer (d.1971)
* [[July 16]]
** [[Goffredo Petrassi]], composer (d. 2003)
** [[Mabel Wayne]] – US composer (d. 1978)
* [[July 18]] – [[Harold Spivacke]], music librarian and administrator (d. 1977)
* [[July 24]]
** [[Leo Arnaud]] – film composer (d. 1991)
** [[Anton Dolin (ballet dancer)|Anton Dolin]] – English dancer and choreographer (d.1983)
* [[July 26]] – [[Jack Westrup]], musicologist (d. 1975)
* [[August 13]] – [[Charles "Buddy" Rogers]], actor and singer (d. 1989)
* [[August 17]] – [[Leopold Nowak]], Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
* [[August 21]] – [[Count Basie]], pianist and bandleader (d. 1984)
* [[September 2]] – [[Set Svanholm]], Swedish operatic tenor (d.1964)
* [[September 7]] –[[Ernst Glaser]], Norwegian violinist, orchestra conductor, and music teacher (died [[1979 in music|1979]]).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Ernst_Glaser |title=Ernst Glaser |encyclopedia=Biography |last=Kortsen |first=Bjarne |authorlink= | editor=[[Knut Helle|Helle, Knut]] |publisher=[[Norsk Biografisk Leksikon]] |language=Norwegian |date=2009-02-13 |accessdate=2015-05-10}}</ref>
* [[September 17]] – Sir [[Frederick Ashton]], dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)
* [[October 11]] – [[Tita Merello]], tango singer, dancer and actress (d. 2002)
* [[October 20]] – [[Anna Neagle]], actress and singer (d. 1986)
* [[October 24]] – [[Moss Hart]], musical theatre director (d. 1961)
* [[October 26]] 
** [[Boris Khaykin]], Russian conductor (died [[1978 in music|1978]])
** [[Torbjørn Knutsen (composer)|Torbjørn Knutsen]], Norwegian composer and violinist (died [[1987 in music|1987]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | url=https://snl.no/Torbj%C3%B8rn_Knutsen | title=Torbjørn Knutsen | language=no | encyclopedia=[[Store Norske Leksikon]] | first= | last= | editor= | publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget | location=Oslo | date=2013-11-18 | accessdate=2017-04-21}}</ref>
* [[October 29]] – [[Vivian Ellis]], English composer (d. 1996)
* [[November 1]] or [[November 14]] – [[Aleksey Zhivotov]], composer (d. 1964)
* [[November 11]] – [[Joseph Lockwood]], record company executive (d. 1991)
* [[November 14]] – [[Dick Powell]], actor and singer (d. 1963)
* [[November 18]] – [[Masao Koga]], Japanese composer (d. 1978)
* [[November 20]] – [[Alexandra Danilova]], Russian dancer and teacher (d.1997)
* [[November 21]] – [[Coleman Hawkins]], saxophonist (d. 1969)
* [[November 25]] – [[Toni Ortelli]], Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
* [[December 9]] – [[Elsie Randolph]], English actress, dancer and singer (d. 1982)
* [[December 18]] – [[Wilf Carter (musician)|Wilf Carter]], country singer (d. 1966)
* [[December 26]] – [[Alejo Carpentier]], musicologist (d. 1980)
* [[December 30]] – [[Dmitry Kabalevsky]], Soviet pianist and composer (d.1987)
* [[December 31]]
** [[Umm Kulthum]], Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)
** [[Nathan Milstein]], Russian violinist (d.1992)